[BUG] Won't launch Chromium inside Node Alpine Docker container

Context:

• Playwright Version: 1.1.1
• Operating System: Dockerized Alpine Linux
• Node version: 12.14
• Browser: Chromium
• Extra: Docker node:12.14-alpine

Code Snippet

Dockerfile

FROM node:12.14-alpine

# Install dependencies (i.e. for compiling bcrypt)
RUN apk --no-cache add --virtual native-deps g++ gcc libgcc libstdc++ linux-headers autoconf automake make nasm python git chromium                                          && \
  npm install --quiet node-gyp -g

Code:

const browser = await playwright.chromium.launch({
      headless: true,
      args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox'],
});

Describe the bug

Playwright is working fine on our local machines (OSX) but once we deploy it to our staging environment, which is in Docker, we get this error complaining can’t launch browser:

2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | [Nest] 32   - 07/02/2020, 10:25:03 PM   [ExceptionsHandler] Failed to launch browser: Error: spawn /root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-775089/chrome-linux/chrome ENOENT
-- | --
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | =================== chromium.launch logs ===================
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | <launching> /root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-775089/chrome-linux/chrome --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-extensions --disable-features=TranslateUI,BlinkGenPropertyTrees,ImprovedCookieControls,SameSiteByDefaultCookies --disable-hang-monitor --disable-ipc-flooding-protection --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-sync --force-color-profile=srgb --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --enable-automation --password-store=basic --use-mock-keychain --user-data-dir=/tmp/playwright_chromiumdev_profile-LahnmC --remote-debugging-pipe --headless --hide-scrollbars --mute-audio --no-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox --no-startup-window
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | ============================================================
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable and rerun to capture Playwright logs. +851342ms
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | Error: Failed to launch browser: Error: spawn /root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-775089/chrome-linux/chrome ENOENT
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | =================== chromium.launch logs ===================
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | <launching> /root/.cache/ms-playwright/chromium-775089/chrome-linux/chrome --disable-background-networking --enable-features=NetworkService,NetworkServiceInProcess --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows --disable-breakpad --disable-client-side-phishing-detection --disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages --disable-default-apps --disable-dev-shm-usage --disable-extensions --disable-features=TranslateUI,BlinkGenPropertyTrees,ImprovedCookieControls,SameSiteByDefaultCookies --disable-hang-monitor --disable-ipc-flooding-protection --disable-popup-blocking --disable-prompt-on-repost --disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-sync --force-color-profile=srgb --metrics-recording-only --no-first-run --enable-automation --password-store=basic --use-mock-keychain --user-data-dir=/tmp/playwright_chromiumdev_profile-LahnmC --remote-debugging-pipe --headless --hide-scrollbars --mute-audio --no-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox --no-startup-window
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | ============================================================
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | Note: use DEBUG=pw:api environment variable and rerun to capture Playwright logs.
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/app/node_modules/playwright/lib/server/processLauncher.js:51:20)
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | at Object.onceWrapper (events.js:313:26)
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:223:5)
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (domain.js:475:20)
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:270:12)
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:456:16)
  | 2020-07-02T15:25:03.614-07:00 | at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:81:21)

Please help! Thank you.

[jaequery]

@aslushnikov are you aware of this? https://github.com/Zenika/alpine-chrome#how-to-use-with-playwright Looks like they have an Alpine based Docker container for running Playwright.

I haven’t tried this yet but I’m wondering if you are aware of this and if this would work?

[aslushnikov]

are you aware of this? https://github.com/Zenika/alpine-chrome#how-to-use-with-playwright Looks like they have an Alpine based Docker container for running Playwright.

@jaequery This looks very nice! Thank you for pointing it here!